Monday, September 27, 2010

Every single person in my family asked me today: what smells so good in the kitchen? And I'm sure the cats were thinking it too, even if they kept it to themselves.

What they smelled was me cleaning out the fridge. I had a giant (optimistically, a two-day) pot of soup on the stovetop, with everything in it that needed using up. And then I found one lonely slice of bacon, and made bacon cornbread to go with it.

I fried my little slice in the pan, then took it out to wait. Made up my cornbread batter and poured it in right on top of the bacon grease. Then cut up my bacon and sprinkled it around before baking. Just enough extra fat and salt to make it a good cornbread upgrade.

Is this bacon season? In the past two weeks I have 'upgraded' three separate things (two of them baked goods) using either bacon or--GASP!--bacon grease. Use of one mere tablespoon of the latter resulted in the best peach pie my husband ever tasted--according to him. So odd how a bit of that flavor in baked goods can really up the ante. Adding the stray slice to humble cornbread really would elevate it!

Looks good! Recently, we were designing our *own* chocolate bars at a company called Chocomize and my teens added BACON as an ingredient for their's. I do believe they'd put it crumbled on top of a hot fudge sundae if I set it out as an option!

Bacon in cornbread?! I've never heard of such a notion! And what a wonderful notion it is!!! In my humble opinion, bacon makes everything better. And if bacon doesn't make it better, one can just substitute chocolate :)

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Photography

Photography is an important part of life at my house. Photos that appear here are taken by Giles, by the Composer, and by me. Giles is a real, paid photographer, and he uses a Sony Alpha. Most of the photography prior to September 2008 is his. Since then I have done most of the shooting and I use a Konica Minolta. Additionally, the Composer offers me nice shots on occasion, often from his little Canon point and shoot. I've given up trying to note who's done what. Thanks for your interest!